Joe Griffith

About Joe Griffith

Joe is a technologist, innovator and entrepreneur with over 25 years of proven success leading businesses with digital strategies to drive performance and growth. He is best known for his passion and ability to execute on business transformation through digital disruption to create business model innovation. He is skilled at building and leading highly engaged teams to achieve significant results. Joe is a co-founder of 2 digital start-ups. During his tenure at Nationwide Insurance he brought to market multiple new products, companies, and lines of business.Joe is Co-founder & COO of Cloverly Specialty, an E & SaaS™ InsurTech that enables quick access to the lucrative specialty insurance marketplace with a market-ready solution that comprises talent, flexible products, distribution, and technology. Cloverly’s “E&S in a box” solution allows insurers and distribution channels rapid and cost-effective access to E&S products for Small & Medium businesses. Ategrity Specialty Insurance Company is a newly launched E&S property/casualty venture. As a Co-founder & CIO he executed on a vision to create a future-proof, digital business platform powered by advanced analytics, deep learning, intuitive design and state of the art technologies. Joe is actively leading the industry charge to disrupt the E&S insurance marketplace through a seamless, fast and simple experience throughout the insurance-buying and servicing value chain. He has attracted a strong team with the best entrepreneurial, business, and technical minds in the E&S industry to deliver on this disruptive vision! The foundation Joe laid at Ategrity has generated over $500M in sales. Joe pioneered the adoption of digital technologies and lean/agile delivery methodologies as the VP IT/CIO at Nationwide. Joe improved IT agility, IT performance and was effective in leading organizational change and creating new business value in Specialty and E&S markets. His bold vision in implementing cloud and AI solutions ignited the startup of new business units. As an industry thought leader in the Excess and Surplus lines insurance industry, he has actively engaged industry partners to advance new capabilities to transform the distribution ecosystem.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President & CIO

   Pivix Specialty Insurance

   Sep 2024 — Present · Scottsdale, AZ, US

   Pivix Specialty Insurance Services Inc.(“Pivix”) is a managing general agent specializing in excess & surplus (E&S) casualty and property lines.

Education

• University of Iowa

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems

Skills

• Business Analysis
• Change Management
• Architecture Planning and Implementation
• Business Transformation
• Requirements Analysis
• IT Infrastructure Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Hardware/Software Acquisitions
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Software Development
• Organization Change Management
• Consulting
• Vendor Management
• IT Service Delivery
• New Ventures
• Budget and Cost Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Building High Performance Teams
• Agile Methodologies
• IT Management
• Cloud Applications
• Information Technology
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Lean Management
• Business Intelligence
• Itil Process Implementation